In fcoe_ctlr_els_send, we determine to be in FIP or non-FIP mode based on fip->flogi_count, and at the 3rd unsuccessful FLOGI attempt, we fall back to non-FIP mode. This takes around 8 secs time. So we expect a FIP discovery advertisement from the switch within 8 secs to not fall back to non-FIP mode.
I think this is too less a time to give up FIP mode, as when RSTP protocol is enabled in the switch I've seen the cases where the switch can take a little longer than 8 secs to send a discovery advertisement, even though the FKA_ADV_PERIOD is default 8 secs. We can also have problems when the switch administrator changes the default value to > 8 secs. I think we should have reasonably high FIP FLOGI retries (10 ??) before falling back to non-FIP mode. Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks, Bhanu _______________________________________________ devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.open-fcoe.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
